What is Breast

Cancer?

Skin changes, such as swelling, redness, or other visible differences in one or both breasts

Symptoms

-Most breast cancers begin in the ducts that carry milk to the nipple (ductal cancers). Some start in the glands that make breast milk (lobular cancers). There are also other types of breast cancer that are less common.

Causes

A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease, such as cancer. But having a risk factor, or even many, does not mean that you are sure to get the disease. While you can’t change some breast cancer risk factors—family history and aging, for example—there are some risk factors that you can control.

Risk Factors

-temporary swelling of the breast.

-breast tenderness.

-hardness due to scar tissue that can form at the site of the incision.